Community of Practice
Community Building Circles with EmpowR Transformation
A Community of Practice for people working towards collective liberation and transformative justice movement building.
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An embodied space to practice emotional regulation, communal care, radical empathy, self awareness, and conflict management for building a culture of belonging and wholeness.
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Build connection with people who are on paths that intersect collective healing with transformational social change.
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Practice showing up in emergent community (even when it is hard) and release the perfectionism and expectations that often keep us from showing up.
COMMUNITY BUILDING IS:
- a foundational skill to strengthen your resilience to navigate the ongoing turbulence of The Great Turning
- one of the most fundamental ways to resist the status quo
- a powerful practice to build the conditions for a more loving, just, and liberated society
Online monthly drop-in space.
Details
Our Community of Practice circles work with the following lineages:
- transformative justice and emergent strategy with the teachings of adrienne maree brown and her teachers Grace Lee Boggs, Mia Mingus, and Octavia Butler;
- indigenous worldview with teachings from Robin Wall Kimmerer and Sherri Mitchell; animist and Pagan worldview with teachings from Starhawk and Sharon Blackie; and facilitation practices from The Circle Way;
- somatic abolitionism and cultural somatics with teachings from Resmaa Menakem in his book, My Grandmother’s Hands, Education for Racial Equity, and the Cultural Somatics Institute;
- liberation movement building teachings from Rockwood Leadership Institute;
- and each of our own lineages with our own relationships with ancestors, spirit guides, multiverse life energy, and our awakening intuition and connection to collective consciousness.
You are encouraged to explore these teachings as an ongoing part of your commitments to collective liberation.
Timing
You are asked to arrive on time so we can open circle together which is how we can cocreate a safe container. You are welcome to pop out to attend to family needs and family are welcome to pop in and say hello and even visit if they choose.
Food/Drink
Please feel free to snack and relax with a nonalcoholic beverage.
Location
We gather online via Zoom. You are encouraged to be set up in a comfy space and to come as your whole self with whatever challenges or joy you may be navigating. This is a space to be in messy, non-performative, non-perfectionist company with other folks who are processing the intensity of becoming better humans in apocalyptic times. Please bring an item of meaning with you to serve as your talking piece.
Zoom link and additional information will be emailed upon registration.
